Data specific to Irises (Edit)
Hybridizer: Clarence Phillips Connell
Year Of Registration: 1927
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): 1927
Classification: Tall Bearded (TB)
Registered Height: 36 inches
Bloom Season: Mid
Bloom Color Classification: Wine
Flower Patterns: Bitone
Foliage: Purple Based
Awards: Dykes Memorial Medal: 1929

General Plant Information (Edit)
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 9b
Flowers: Showy
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Seeds: Will not come true from seed
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Parentage: Cardinal X Rose Madder
Child plants: 101 child plants

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Common names
  • Tall Bearded Iris
  • Iris

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Location: my Zone 7b garden in North Georgia Mountains
Date: 2023-05-16
From Old House Gardens
Photo by IrisP
Location: Bed C
Date: 2022-05-24
overcast
Photo by AlanJ
Location: Michigan-my garden
Location: east of lawn
Date: 20230518
full sun

Date: c. 1937
illustration from the 1937 catalog, Robert Wayman, Bayside, New Y

Date: c. 1933
illustration from the 1933 catalog, Cooley's Gardens, Silverton,
Location: Southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-24
Location: catnip bed
Date: 2019-05-17
rainy
Location: east tree bed
Date: 2018-05-26
cloudy
Location: east of lawn
Date: 20230518
full sun
Photo by Lbsmitty
Location: Sass Memorial Iris Garden near Ashland, NE
Date: 2015-05-21
Location: catnip bed
Date: 2019-05-19
better light, same plant
Location: Bed C
Date: 2022-05-24
overcast

Photo courtesy of Iris City Gardens
Location: east of lawn
Date: 20230518
full sun
Location: Whitesboro, TX
Date: 2017-05-23
Image courtesy of The Shady Spot Iris. All rights reserved.
Location: Wisconsin
Date: Spring 2014
www.damongardens.com
Location: catnip bed
Date: 2019-05-17
rainy
Location: catnip bed
Date: 2019-05-19
better light, same plant
Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: May 23, 2015
Full sun.
Location: Southeast Nebraska
Date: 2014-05-24
Location: Sass Memorial Garden near Ashland, NE
Date: 2010-05-17

Photo courtesy of Bluebird Haven Iris Garden
Location: east tree bed
Date: 2018-05-26
cloudy
Location: east tree bed
Date: 2018-05-26
cloudy
Location: Catheys Valley CA
Photo courtesy of Superstition Iris Gardens, posted with permissi
Photo by naomimade

Photo courtesy of Blue J Iris Used with permission.
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